[Nottingham] Nottingham Perl Mongers (good/bad idea?)

[Duncan John Fyfe]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Andy Brown wrote:

>
> Lesson 7
> Total insanity, such as using perl to read CSV files and stuff data
> into a Microsoft SQL Server (well, MSDE) database.
>
> (and yes, this probably *is* the best way of doing the data transfer)
>
>

Why is this insane ?
	DBD::CSV -> DBD::*
Is a great way of loading data into a database while leaving the data humanly mongable and in a database neutral format.
Especially good for test data and initial data sets.

Have fun,
Duncan

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